Sleep challenges we address
Difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep (insomnia)
When you’re dealing with insomnia, nights can feel like an endless cycle of watching the clock, trying desperately to sleep, and dreading how tired you’ll be in the morning. Insomnia can mean lying awake for hours, waking up repeatedly, or waking too early, leaving you exhausted and frustrated. The lack of quality rest doesn’t just leave you tired—it can affect your mood, make it hard to concentrate, and add stress to your daily life. Over time, insomnia can feel isolating, affecting your work, relationships, and overall well-being. Seeking help can be transformative, offering you tools and strategies to quiet your mind, rebuild a healthy sleep pattern, and finally get the rest you need.
Nightmare disorder
If you’re experiencing frequent nightmares that leave you anxious, exhausted, or even fearful of going to bed, you may be dealing with nightmare disorder. For adults, nightmares aren’t just an occasional bad dream—they can be intense, recurring, and often leave you feeling distressed long after you wake up. These disturbing dreams can impact your sleep quality, causing you to wake frequently or avoid sleep altogether, leading to daytime fatigue, irritability, and even anxiety. Living with nightmare disorder can affect your mental and physical health, relationships, and daily functioning. But there are effective treatments, like cognitive-behavioral techniques and imagery rehearsal therapy, that can help you regain control, reduce the frequency of nightmares, and restore restful, restorative sleep.
Sleep walking, sleep terrors, nighttime panic attacks, sleep paralysis
These are all examples or a group of sleep behaviors called parasomnias. They can make sleep a frightening experience, leaving you or your loved ones feeling unsettled. You might find yourself sleepwalking, performing complex tasks without being fully aware, or experiencing intense sleep terrors, where you wake up in sheer panic with little memory of what happened. Nighttime panic attacks may jolt you awake with overwhelming fear, and during sleep paralysis, you may feel temporarily unable to move or speak, sometimes with vivid, unsettling hallucinations. These episodes disrupt your sleep quality and can lead to anxiety about going to bed. Fortunately, effective treatments—including behavioral strategies and relaxation techniques — can be part of an overall strategy to help you manage and/or reduce these episodes, allowing you to rest with greater peace of mind.
Sleep schedule challenges (falling asleep too early, too late, and more)
Do you feel like you’re constantly fighting against your own internal sleep clock? You may be experiencing a circadian rhythm sleep disorder. Whether you’re wide awake late at night and struggling to get up in the morning, or dealing with early awakenings that throw off your day, these sleep patterns often don’t line up with the demands of your schedule. Working 2nd or 3rd shifts, rotating shifts, or frequently traveling across time zones can also disrupt your sleep cycle, leaving you feeling tired, out of sync, and frustrated—almost as if you’re always jet-lagged. This misalignment can affect your work, relationships, and mood, making it harder to stay focused and energized. Fortunately, treatments like light therapy, sleep scheduling, and gradual adjustments can help realign your sleep pattern, so you can enjoy restful, restorative sleep that fits your lifestyle.
Difficulty with PAP and other medical sleep regimens
Managing obstructive sleep apnea or narcolepsy can be challenging and overwhelming for anyone. Obstructive sleep apnea, where ones airway temporarily closes during sleep, often requires CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) therapy, which can be uncomfortable and difficult to tolerate. Narcolepsy, a condition marked by excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden sleep attacks, disrupts school, activities, and family life. Both conditions can significantly impact your mood, energy, and cognitive functioning, affecting safety, performance, and social relationships. We can work with you to help your wear CPAP, develop lifestyle strategies to help manage your narcolepsy, and implement other recommendations made by your medical sleep team.